50 FISHES OF THE CONNECTICUT LAKES. 



or the second generation. The specimens run from about 4,25 to 9 

 inches in length. The food, as indicated by the stomach contents, 

 consisted of small insects and caddis worms or larva? with wood and 

 fine gravel cases. Individuals about 5.75 inches long were sexually 

 mature males and one about G inches long a female with eggs. 



Should further plants of this fish be made in the Connecticut Lake 

 waters it is suggested that they be restricted to the immediate 

 waters of the First Lake, and that they be placed in the lower end 

 of Coon Brook near Main Inlet and in Big Brook near the road to 

 Second Lake. Both of these j^laces can be conveniently reached, the 

 one by boat, the other by team. The advantages of these places are 

 that owing to the tendency of the trout to remain in the waters in 

 which i^lanted it would attain a larger size in these brooks and 

 perhaps would be more likely to work out into the Main Inlet and 

 thence to the lake, where it would reach a still larger size, 



17, Lake Trout. Cristivomer naTnayciish (Walbaum). 



Plate XI. 



Head in length to base of caudal 3.79 ; eye in head 7.58 ; snout 5.05 ; maxillary 

 bone 2.45; mandible 1.59; gillrakers 8+13 on each side; the longest about 1.7 

 in eye ; branchiostegals 12 on right side and 11 on left ; dorsal 11 ; anal 10 ; 

 scales 32-180-32. 



Head comparatively long ; eye small ; distance from tip of snout to posterior 

 extremity of maxillary 1.97 in head ; body rather more slender than that of the 

 trout or salmon ; pores of lateral line about 120 in number ; pectoral moderate, 

 1.68 in head ; first rays of dorsal and anal longest, much overlapping the others 

 when depressed, especially in the anal ; caudal deeply forked. 



Head, back, and upper parts of side dark greenish gray, the color most intense 

 on edges of scales, clearly defining their outline; belly silvery white with 

 darker shade defining margins of scales ; light golden yellow spots on cheeks 

 and opercles and all parts of body except ventral region, from tip of lower 

 jaw to base of anal, the spots lighter posteriorly; dorsal olive, spotted with 

 pale yellow and broadly margined with same shade; pectoral and ventrals pale 

 yellow below, dusky above with broad margin of pale yellow ; anal dusky, with 

 ends of rays pale yellow, first raj;s white ; adipose and caudal dusky, spotted 

 with greenish yellow. Description taken from a male specimen 15.5 inches long 

 caught in Second Connecticut Lake, September, 1904. 



A specimen 11.25 inches long caught at the same time, also a male, has a 

 longer head, larger eye, longer snout, and somewhat longer fins. The color 

 often varies from very dark, almost black, with dull yellowish or soiled white 

 spots, to bright silver with more sharply defined, cleaner spots of white, gray, 

 or yellow. 



Other individuals vary somewhat from the above descriptions according to 

 age, sex, breeding condition, and the water in which they occur. 



Distinguished from all other trout or salmon by its color and sharply forked 

 tail. 



The lake trout is known most commonly in this region by the name 

 of " laker " or " lunge." In Maine it is frequently called " togiie " 

 and in parts of New Brunswick " tiiladi," and erroneously in other 



